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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What complication was there when Art Spiegelman was born?
(a) He was almost strangulated by the umbilical cord.
(b) He was sickly.
(c) He was a breach birth.
(d) He was premature.

2. Who is the friend Anja “always ran to see” even after she and Vladek were married?
(a) A communist from Warsaw.
(b) A childhood friend.
(c) An old boyfriend from home.
(d) A cousin from Berlin.

3. Why does Artie say, in Chpater 1, that he wants to gather this information about Anja?
(a) He says that he wants to tell a personal story, not a story about the Holocaust.
(b) He says that he won’t know the story until he hears it.
(c) He says that he wants to know his father better.
(d) He says that it makes his father’s story more human.

4. What happened in the Bielsko factory while Vladek and Anja were away?
(a) There were labor riots
(b) There was a fire.
(c) There was a murder.
(d) It was robbed.

5. What is Vladek and Anja’s reaction to Vladek being drafted?
(a) Vladek and Anja pack and leave for America.
(b) Vladek is taken away, and Anja runs the factory.
(c) Vladek reports, and Anja returns to her parents’.
(d) Vladek reports, and Anja goes to live with a neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vladek do to get back in touch with Anja after she stopped contacting him?

2. Who visits Vladek before he moves to Anja’s town?

3. What plans do Anja’s family and Vladek make after the birth of Vladek and Anja’s first son?

4. What wedding gift does Artie’s father say his father-in-law gave him?

5. What happens to disturb Vladek and Anja’s peace in 1939?

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